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Fogarty Innovation
Fogarty Innovation is a nonprofit medtech incubator and education organization on the El Camino Health campus in Mountain View, California. Founded in 2007 by legendary surgeon-inventor Thomas J. Fogarty, MD, it helps early-stage medical device companies cross the gap from novel idea to clinical reality through hands-on coaching, education programs, and a network of 300+ industry experts. In October 2025 it merged with New York's Cardiovascular Research Foundation to become CRF's West Coast innovation hub.
Tatiana Fofanova
Tatiana Fofanova is the co-founder and CEO of Koda Health, a Houston-based B2B enterprise SaaS company that helps health systems and payers scale advance care planning. Trained as a molecular-medicine PhD at Baylor College of Medicine and a former HHMI scholar, she left bench and pediatric work after concluding that patients needed access and good information more than newer drugs. She built Koda out of the Texas Medical Center's Biodesign Fellowship in 2020 with co-founders Desh Mohan and Katelin Cherry, describing the product as 'TurboTax meets Duolingo' for the hardest conversations in medicine. The company now supports more than a million patients nationwide and raised an oversubscribed $7M Series A in October 2025.
Shubhra Jain
Dr. Shubhra Jain, MD, MBA is Chief Business Officer at Hippocratic AI, the $3.5B generative AI healthcare company building the world's safest patient-facing AI agents. A rare triple threat - trained primary care physician, Stanford engineer (MS Biodesign), and Wharton MBA - she brings a decade of healthcare investing and product leadership to Hippocratic AI's commercial strategy. Before joining HAI, she led healthcare investing at Tarsadia Investments and Cota Capital, and held product leadership roles at Natera and Pieces Technologies. A first-generation immigrant from a small Indian town, she is a passionate advocate for health equity, underrepresented founders, and making healthcare abundant for all.